It's not a rifle. The damn thing doesn't have
a trigger, magazine, or even a goddamned
barrel. It's just an antenna
taped onto a stock with a scope mounted on it.
You're just as likely to get arrested
for carrying a squirtgun.
Bad example that the article starts out with (typical media crap that makes the kid seem like it's just a high school prank). It starts with a story about an kid brandishing a BB gun to rob people. He robbed an off-duty cop with it so the cop's partner shot & killed the kid. There's better examples of cops killing people with fake guns later in the article. But that first kid had to know if the gun looks real enough to rob someone, that someone might think it was a real enough to shoot him over.
There's pictures of the geek's gun in the Wired article, and it looks pretty sci-fi. Not even as "intimidating" as a paint ball gun. If someone got shot over that gun, it'd be an overreaction. Although right or wrong, the geek would still be shot. If he goes out with it, he'd attract less possible fatal attraction in a Star Wars costume. He might get beat up by some jocks, but the cops wouldn't shoot him.
Kinda gives a new meaning to '1337 hAx0r2'. (Score:4, Funny)
What, so instead of "Fucking tool" it now will mean "Fucking tool who's in jail for aiming a sniper rifle at someone"?
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Re:Kinda gives a new meaning to '1337 hAx0r2'. (Score:0)
You're just as likely to get arrested for carrying a squirtgun.
Re:Kinda gives a new meaning to '1337 hAx0r2'. (Score:0)
If it looks like a weapon, or like it could be used as a weapon... The police are going to want to talk to you.
Re:Kinda gives a new meaning to '1337 hAx0r2'. (Score:1)
There's pictures of the geek's gun in the Wired article, and it looks pretty sci-fi. Not even as "intimidating" as a paint ball gun. If someone got shot over that gun, it'd be an overreaction. Although right or wrong, the geek would still be shot. If he goes out with it, he'd attract less possible fatal attraction in a Star Wars costume. He might get beat up by some jocks, but the cops wouldn't shoot him.
Re:Kinda gives a new meaning to '1337 hAx0r2'. (Score:2)